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by jampa 1y ago
> Does telling the AI to "just be correct" essentially work? This forces the LLM to use more "thinking" tokens, making the AI more likely to visualize any mistakes in the previous outputs. In most APIs, this can be co
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My Advice to Junior Engineers(jampauchoa.substack.com)
4 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
The biggest mistake people are making is treating AI as a product instead of a feature. While people are doing their work, they don't think, "Oh man, I am really excited to talk with AI today, and I can't wait to talk with a
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by jampa 1y ago
His "I told you so" attitude only makes sense for people who believe what they saw on Twitter from people like Sam, who thrive on hype. For most people, it was obvious that we were/are in the last part of the S curve on the L
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by jampa 1y ago
> My question is what happened to the $2.4B We don't know what deal they made with the VCs, but they could have multiple liquidation preference agreements. > A liquidation preference multiple (e.g., 1x, 2x) determines how much in
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by jampa 1y ago
I am reading this right, is this model way better than Gemma 3n[1]? (For only the benchmarks that are common among the models) ===== LiveCodeBench E4B IT: 13.2 Qwen: 55.2 ===== AIME25 E4B IT: 11.6 Qwen: 81.3 [1]: https://huggingf
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There is no free lunch when dealing with engineering processes(taoem.com)
3 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
It depends a lot. In your first two points, I think that after you know your team well enough, you will understand where your engineers' skills lie and learn how to delegate effectively to either the person most capable or the one who
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by jampa 1y ago
> IMPORTANT: Claude Code must be installed first: > [...] > # 2. Activate Claude Code with permissions > claude --dangerously-skip-permissions Bypassing all permissions and connecting with MCPs, can't wait for "Claude
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by jampa 1y ago
He drives a Xiaomi SU7, which seems like the best car out there for the price. Honestly, it amazes me that Xiaomi built the car that you would expect Apple to come up with after all these years they spent researching and coming up with noth
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by jampa 1y ago
As someone who was self-taught and then changed my degree to CS, I think one thing that shows that someone learned by themselves is that they thrive without formal deadlines. I see some fresh grads struggling when going to a professional en
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by jampa 1y ago
Most banking apps here only allow their own app as a 2-factor authentication, not even TOTP is allowed. (I think they make it to increase user engagement.) The worst one is Mercado Libre, which also requires you to use your phone to "s
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by jampa 1y ago
> Having your phone in the same room while doing cognitive work reliably drops your memory, attention, and overall cognitive performance. That is my biggest problem with most Multifactor authentication. I try to leave my phone in another
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by jampa 1y ago
> I suspect their motivation was just to get a commit on their record. This is becoming a troubling trend with AI tools. It has been for a while, AI just makes SPAM more effective: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=246
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by jampa 1y ago
They were pretty explicit that this was only the cost in GPU hours to USD for the final run. Journalists and Twitter tech bros just saw an easy headline there. It's the same with Clair Obscur developer's Sandfall, where the people
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by jampa 1y ago
> who is actually getting value out of these batch APIs I used the batch API extensively for my side project, where I wanted to ingest a large amount of images, extract descriptions, and create tags for searching. After you get the right
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What makes a good 1-on-1 (and where some managers get it wrong)(taoem.com)
1 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
I like Steve's content, but the ending misses the mark. With the carriage / car situation, individual transportation is their core business, and most companies are not in the field of Artificial Intelligence. I say this as someone
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by jampa 1y ago
Reading the "Why is it bad for someone else to have your passport number?" is scary, especially since when traveling to countries like Spain and Italy, every Airbnb / Hotel requires you to send a picture of your passport. Jap
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by jampa 1y ago
I don't want to sound like a skeptic, but I see way more people talking about how awesome MCP is rather than people building cool things with it. Reminds me of blockchain hype. MCP seems like a more "in-between" step until th
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Why no GenAI was used in this book(taoem.com)
4 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
I think it is a combination of both. From what I heard, Denuvo hires many people from "the scene," and when someone cracks it, they pursue them aggressively. Denuvo is also not a massive target because there are too many games now
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You need to care about Product(taoem.com)
9 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
Thanks for this post. As someone writing an open-source book (without an editor to help), I find some takeaways very helpful. But I think your most significant change was changing the "what" to "why". Reading the origina
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by jampa 1y ago
The first two paragraphs of your argument could be used to discuss whether Photography (Camera is doing most of the work) or Digital Drawing (Photoshop is doing most of the work) are art. Both things which were dismissed as not art at first
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by jampa 1y ago
Honestly, Grok's technology is not impressive at all, and I wonder why anyone would use it: - Gemini is state-of-the-art for most tasks - ChatGPT has the best image generation - Claude is leading in coding solutions - Deepseek is getti
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by jampa 1y ago
There are even more search issues that sometimes make it unusable: - Impossible to filter / search by rating, which is a must-have if I am going to travel, no way I am risking staying at a first-time host, a lot of horror stories from
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by jampa 1y ago
The real money is for enterprise use (via APIs), so public perception is not as crucial as for a consumer product.
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What should Engineering Managers be doing, anyway?(taoem.com)
3 points by jampa 1y ago|0 comments
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by jampa 1y ago
I was trying to play with o3 this week to see how close it can identify things, and, interestingly, it tries more pattern matching than its own "logic deduction". For example, it can easily deduce any of my photos from Europe and

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